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Wake in Fright

Wake in Fright

1971 · 109 min · EN · R · 7.2 (362 votes)
Dir. Ted Kotcheff · Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle · Music John Scott

“Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.”

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A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

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A suffocating descent into a primal, sun-baked hellscape. The air is thick with booze and desperation as a man's sanity unravels in the unforgiving Australian outback. It's a raw, confrontational experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

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